Baen Books has announced that starting June 10th the company will no longer support the Email my book to Kindle feature. The primary reason for this is due to the new Amazon's Terms of Use. In essence, Baen e-books cannot use Amazon's Personal Documents Service to deliver paid content.In March 2015 Amazon augmented their cloud system that requires users to subscribe to … [Read more...] about Baen eBooks Can No Longer Be Sent to a Kindle
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Amazon Unveils New Bookerly Font for iPhone and iPad
Amazon has just released a new version of their seminal Kindle e-Reading app for the iPad and iPhone. The company has made a big step towards better typography with the advent of Bookerly, the first typeface designed for the Kindle for scratch. Additionally, it looks like Amazon is trying to solve the Kindle's typesetting problems with an all-new layout engine that introduces … [Read more...] about Amazon Unveils New Bookerly Font for iPhone and iPad
Google Signature Font Roboto is now Open Source
Google has announced that their signature font "Roboto" is now officially free to use by any e-reader company. This font is the default one that is currently being used in Android and Chrome OS.The font files for the Roboto family of fonts were first released under the Apache license as part of Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) in 2011. With this launch, Roboto is now a true … [Read more...] about Google Signature Font Roboto is now Open Source
Amazon’s Tax Woes Hit EU
The past few years have not been kind to Amazon in terms of sales tax. Once various states around the country discovered a veritable cash cow in trying to force Amazon to collect and submit sales taxes, lawsuits sprung up from every corner of the country, with states' attorneys general filing lawsuits to recover back taxes and state governments introducing new legislation aimed … [Read more...] about Amazon’s Tax Woes Hit EU
Google Play Books Publisher Program Has Been Closed
Google has closed their Play Books publisher program amidst concerns of rampant e-book piracy.The Google Play Publisher Program allows independent authors and publishing companies to include their novels and app guides on the Google Play bookstore. Sadly, this program has been taken over by fake publishers and people uploading pirated apps.There has been many documented … [Read more...] about Google Play Books Publisher Program Has Been Closed
The New Self-Publishing: Amazon Takes on Etsy
What Amazon has done to reshape the publishing industry as a whole is nothing short of miraculous. The launch of the Kindle line of e-readers sparked a revolution in reading, just as the launch of KDP self-publishing completely revamped how books even come into being. Of course, Amazon has branched out in countless ways, offering everything from toilet paper to original content … [Read more...] about The New Self-Publishing: Amazon Takes on Etsy
New Book Chronicles the Rise and Fall of Blackberry
A new book is coming out on May 26th 2015 that chronicles the rise and fall of Blackberry. The book is entitled Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff. It is already getting a ton of media attention due to the tell all nature, that talks about the duo CEOS and how the iPhone came … [Read more...] about New Book Chronicles the Rise and Fall of Blackberry
Is Digital Publishing Broken?
It's been eight long years since Amazon rocked the reading world with the introduction of the Kindle. It was certainly not the first e-reader device on the market, but it was the first one with the power of Amazon's PR team to put it in consumers' hands in a big way, and it was the first one that came with the world's largest online bookseller to feed it.And the industry … [Read more...] about Is Digital Publishing Broken?
15,000 Free e-books Now Available on Entry Level Samsung Phones
Samsung is trying to make their entry level smartphones viable in Africa. The South Korean company has ironed out a partnership with Worldreader and Jumia to offer over 15,000 free e-books.Worldreader is well known in the e-book world with providing African schools with e-readers that are full of great free content. The non-profit has been doing it for years and has finally … [Read more...] about 15,000 Free e-books Now Available on Entry Level Samsung Phones
Scribd Brings Bestselling eBooks to Australia
Australia has proven itself a major growth market for Scribd. Subscriptions have more than tripled in the country in less than a year. This has prompted Scribd to negotiate with their publishing partners to bring modern bestsellers to Australia in a bid to appeal to serious readers.Scribd is employing a different kind of strategy to the Australian market. First of all they … [Read more...] about Scribd Brings Bestselling eBooks to Australia
Would you buy an e-Book from a Hotel or Airport?
Would you buy an e-book from an airport, museum or hotel? Big five publisher Simon & Schuster hopes you will.Simon & Schuster has partnered with mobile content delivery service Foli to offer customers complimentary access to a selection of full-text e-books in airports, museums and hotels in the United States.Foli specializes in Geo-targeting, which basically … [Read more...] about Would you buy an e-Book from a Hotel or Airport?
Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Shortlist Announced
Kobo has just unveiled the shortlist for a new literary initiative that celebrates digital works by Canadian authors. The Emerging Writer Prize was created for debut authors in three categories: Literary Fiction, Genre Fiction, Mystery and Non-Fiction. Each winning author will be awarded a $10,000 CAD cash prize as well as promotional, marketing, and communications … [Read more...] about Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Shortlist Announced
Bill Gates Posts his Summer 2015 Reading List
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has just posted his reading list for the summer. Every year he posts six novels that he wants to read or has read. This year he has a series of books that had made him laugh or were thought provoking.Hyperbole and a Half, by Allie Brosh. The book, based on Brosh’s wildly popular website, consists of brief vignettes and comic drawings about her … [Read more...] about Bill Gates Posts his Summer 2015 Reading List
Google Play Books is a Cesspool of Piracy
Google Play Books is quickly becoming a den of iniquity and a veritable cesspool of piracy. It is ridiculously easy for someone to start a publishing company and upload thousands of pirated books and piggyback on the success of established authors. Google won't do anything about the pirated copies and has even told authors inquiring about their illegitimate books that they have … [Read more...] about Google Play Books is a Cesspool of Piracy